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ECA 2024 - Health Communication Interest Group Call for Submissions
Call for Papers
2024 Eastern Communication Association Convention
“Currents”
Cambridge, MA
March 20-24, 2024
Submission Deadline: September 18, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT
Submission link for Health Communication Interest Group
The Health Communication Interest Group invites submissions for ECA's 115th Annual Convention in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 2024 convention theme is “Currents" which represents our convention location on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge. We especially encourage submissions that fit this theme. Programming may focus on ways on how ideas are the currents that shape our discipline in today's world. This may include currents in teaching, scholarship, or the practice of health communication. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- How do historical currents shape the contemporary study of health communication?
- How can the health communication discipline move ideas and theories into a wider body of knowledge?
- How do theories currently shape the practice of health communication?
- What health communication ideas, topics, or concepts have been challenged, created or renewed recently?
- What impact do current technologies have on health communication pedagogy?
- What current trends and movements are changing the direction of teaching, learning, practicing, and theorizing health communication?
Consider the many ways that health communication embraces the concept of innovation as you prepare your submission!
We invite the following types of submissions:
- Individual Papers
- Panel Discussions
Submission guidelines:
Individual Papers:
Only complete papers will be considered
Papers must be no longer than 25 pages and use a 12-point font size; double-spaced; 1-inch margins (abstract, references, tables, and figures are not included in the 25-page limit)
Papers must conform to APA 7th Edition guidelines
The paper must be uploaded as a PDF
All identifying author(s) information (names, institutions, hidden document properties) must be removed; if this requirement is not met, submissions will not be eligible for review
Please specify on the electronic submission if any/all authors are student authors.
Panel Discussions:
These can take the form of a discussion panel of scholars, students, practitioners, or a combination
Please use the following guidelines for panel discussion submissions:
- a) Include a title, a chair, and a 250-word abstract of each paper/presentation
- b) Please include names and affiliations (i.e. institution/organization) for each presenter
Additional Submission Information:
ECA utilizes Attendee Interactive to manage submissions and reviews. ECA will send an email to members and update the Convention section of its website with a link to the submission link. To submit your work, you will be prompted to log in using ECA-specific credentials (you do not use login credentials you may have created for any other association, such as NCA, that uses Attendee Interactive), or to create an account.
Submissions must not have been presented at another conference and can only be submitted to one interest group at ECA. Our division will award Top Paper Awards, including one Top Student Paper Award. Student-led submissions (i.e. student is first author, faculty member is co-author) are eligible for the Top Paper Awards.
You must include the following Statement of Professional Responsibility with all papers and panels:
In submitting the attached paper/panel, I/We recognize that an accepted paper/panel is considered a professional responsibility. If this submission is accepted and programmed, I/We agree to register for the ECA convention, pay fees, and present the work. I/We understand that presenters with last minute emergencies should take all possible measures to arrange an alternate presenter, and communicate their plans to both the Interest Group Planner and ECA VP.
Convention Acceptance Notifications: January 2024
Criteria for Acceptance:
Submissions will be reviewed/assessed based on the following criteria:
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s conceptual rationale. To what extent does this submission have a clear and well-chosen theoretical basis? Does this submission contain innovative ideas? Does the submission address important questions? To what extent does the submission craft a compelling rationale?
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s methodology. To what extent is the method of data collection and/or analysis appropriate for the research question/idea or hypothesis?
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s discussion of findings/analysis. To what extent will the submission substantially improve our understanding of health communication? Does this submission have compelling theoretical and/or practical implications? Does the submission challenge existing paradigms? To what extent are the findings important and compelling?
-How well does this submission reflect the 2024 convention theme of "Currents"?
Please contact the interest group planner for questions about the submission process.
Satarupa Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Applied Communication, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2024 Health Communication Interest Group Chair and Planner
sdasgupt@ramapo.edu
